New blue belt

Introducing blue belt number twelve at Wimbledon BJJ...HUGE congrats to young Rob on his well deserved blue belt last night; he missed the Grading Day due to work commitments, so was promoted last night in front of his fellow team mates.

Congrats Rob from everyone at Wimbledon BJJ!

Last night's class

Great session last night with the Monkeys, as always...

Monday night session

Huge thanks to young George for taking Monday's class in my absence; I'm back at Wimbledon BJJ tonight and looking forward to twisting up my lovely students :)

Lucas Leite at London Fight Factory

Awesome lunchtime session in the bag this afternoon over at LFF, enjoying a masterclass on the half and deep half guard from the legendary Lucas Leite...massive thanks to Luiz as always, for bringing the very best to the club and looking forward to class tonight at Wimbledon BJJ, lots to drill out tonight!

Monday night class

Lots of fun with the Monkeys on Monday night, mixing things up with the good old clock choke and a little dashing of Catch, keeping everyone on their toes...looking forward to class this evening, after my training session with Lucas Leite earlier this lunch time, got some nice things to show everyone :)

Multi style Saturday session

I had the immense pleasure of sharing the mats with two high ranking traditional martial artists on my monthly Saturday session at Wimbledon BJJ; representing Traditional Jiu Jitsu and Shorinji Kempo, Colin Foster and Adrian Starr travelled up from Southampton to train with the Monkeys, sharing techniques and having plenty of fun.

Adrian showed some seriously brutal wrist locks and I took the class over some old school Catch wrestling techniques, with lots of nelsons, crucifixes, grovits, face bars, half alch and full alch and lots more.

An awesome session rounded off by a few beers in the local Spoons round the corner from the gym, the cheapest beer in London :)

Looking forward to seeing them back in the New Year.

UK Coaching course

Myself and two other colleagues from MMARAP attended a Safeguarding and Child Protection course last night at Padding Recreation Centre, which will enable us to deliver martial arts sessions to the under 18's in the local borough, able and disabled, as well as adult sessions.

All that is needed now is the UK Coaching First Aid course to be completed and then we are all good to go; huge thanks to MMARAP Bossman Jonny Buffong for all his hard behind the scenes work in getting these courses arranged for us.  

Really looking forward to spreading the good work of MMARAP to a wider London audience.

Ooos!

Last night's class

Rather quiet session night in my absence, as I was away on a coaching course, absent fools will be shark tanked to within inches of their lives next class...no excuses!

Thanks to the blue belts for taking the session and working everyone hard :)

Last night's class...

Another solid session in the bag on Monday night at Wimbledon BJJ; threw in some good old Catch wrassling for a change and as a warm up for the upcoming Saturday session this weekend, with invited martial artists from Southampton joining in the fun, looking forward to it...

MMARAP patches for sale

Very proud to be a part of the Mixed Martial Arts for Reform and Progression association as a martial arts coach; MMARAP deliver martial arts classes to wheelchair users, deaf, blind, visually impaired and all points in between!

New patches are available from the head of MMARAP Jonny Buffong, on his Facebook group (Mixed Martial Arts for Reform and Progression) or via Instagram (@mmarap_official) all sales go directly to MMARAP, to help Jonny and the team spread out and deliver more much needed community classes in the London area.

Ooooss!

Last night's class

Another busy session last night, with thirteen nationalities represented on the mats...as the old saying goes, 'we are all one...'

The Northern Monkey at LFF...

Thursday lunchtime session in the bag today over at LFF; no easy rolls down here but lots of fun drilling and rolling with the lads and ladies, enjoying a run of good training fortune both here and at Wimbledon BJJ, long may it continue :)

Last night's class

Another busy class last night at Wimbledon BJJ, with four new starters taking their first steps on the Jiu Jitsu journey and getting stuck right into the training with the rest of the Monkeys.

Next class tomorrow night...

New blue belts at Wimbledon BJJ!

Super proud to promote three of my monkeys to blue belt yesterday at the annual Grading Day at London Fight Factory...all very well deserved promotions to three very hard working students, rarely miss a class and have competed and tested their skills in both BJJ and MMA.

Huge well done from myself ad everyone at Wimbledon BJJ and Fight Sports London...

Sweep from a Lasso video

Here's the latest You Tube filmed on location at Wimbledon BJJ...please click the poll link in the video and let me know what other sweeps you'd like to see from the Northern Monkey :)